The government is concerned that the rebels are easily winning new recruits among tribal groups, who have often complained of exploitation and discrimination by local officials.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

We should be approaching young people, encouraging them to engage, cross our religious boundaries and engage constructively with the same sort of sense of purpose that al-Qaeda recruits young people with a destructive divisive ideology.

我们应该靠近青年人，鼓励他们参与这项事业，跨越宗教界线,鼓励他们具有建设性地参与其中,带着与基地组织招募拥有破坏性的,分裂的意识形态的青年人时有的目的感。

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"Noordin is the guy who has the managerial skills to continue motive young recruits to join his cause which is to kill Americans and its allies,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.21

He says the man chased him and others into a nearby building, but - instead of pursuing them - he began shooting recruits still sleeping in their beds.

VOA: standard.2009.03.30

According to VOA sources in Somalia, many foreigners are based at al-Shabab training camps in the towns of Marka,Barawe,and Kismayo, teaching thousands of recruits bomb-making skills and guerrilla fighting tactics.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

"I think this will reverberate very loudly in the region, and you will see it perceived especially by our enemies, by the Taliban and al-Qaida, as an admission that America is losing its will and is not committed over the long term, and they will be able to convince their recruits to wait the U.S.out,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.06